“Never have so few decided so much for so many.” The Sun
This is how The Sun launched its campaign today against Gordon Brown’s momentous decision to abandon democracy and his party’s manifesto on which he was elected by said democracy.
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I don’t read The Sun (is “read” the right verb?) and I stopped reading the Daily Mail when I realised it was either lies, exaggerations or designed to anger.
So I don’t often trip over columns of Richard Littlejohn’s. I recommend anyone who is interested in gay and black rights read his column. He captures what is entirely wrong with today’s left-wing-led ‘rights’ agenda.
Black people are no more or less able than white people to be police officers, nurses, teachers or priests. The very existence of the Black Police Association is a daft nonsense. As is the GPA.
It is important that there is no bullying of any sort in any part of life and most responsible companies and organisations have established ways of avoiding it. But to have an association which is aimed at a section of the population for superficial reasons which could not be reciprocated (the White Police Association and the Straight Police Association would make as much sense — none), is daft.
And I meant to use the word “daft” twice. It is.
On bullying, I was reading a poster in Adur District Council on Friday and the poster used an ingenious method of rooting out bullying. People throughout the Council have put their names down to be contacts for people who are the victims of bullying. Anyone who feels they are a victim can approach any one of the people who’s names are on the poster and have a sympathetic ear who won’t necessarily be part of their management hierarchy. I was struck by what a good idea this is.
A procedure like this ensures that a victim of bullying (whether, as in this post’s subject, it is about homophobia, racism or the size of their nose) can have their torment dealt with. There is absolutely no need to threaten a clearly sensible columnist with thought-crime punishments. Let’s make the next Conservative government the one which puts an end to this nonsense.
The debacle of Section 28 places us in an uncomfortable position on this subject, but it must be obvious to people by now that the majority of Britons do not think that homosexuality is a consort with the devil. The Conservatives are not the purveyors of hate of the 1980s and they can deal, if Cameron chooses, with this steady slip towards a gagged populace.
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